Grégory Germain

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that while the wake of the turbine is deeply influenced by the ambient turbulence conditions, its mean performances turn out to be slightly modified, which is crucial in the view of implanting second generation turbines arrays.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the interactions between two horizontal axis marine current turbines, axially aligned with the upstream flow, and characterise the wake of each turbine so as to explain their behaviour.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a tri-bladed horizontal axis turbine to investigate the hydrodynamics of marine current turbines and to characterize the wake generated by the turbine.

TL;DR: In this article, a series of flume tank measurements on strain gauged scaled turbine blades was performed to study the effects of both current and wave-current interactions on measured strains.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors presented numerical computations of three bladed horizontal axis marine current turbines in a uniform free upstream current, where the unsteady evolution of the turbine wake is taken into account by some three-dimensional software, developed to assess the disturbances generated in the sea.